Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Highlights from the Poor Peopleâs Campaign
against Poverty, Racism & Militarism in D.C.
featuring the poor, the disenfranchised, the marginalized -
we the people!

The Moral Agenda, which has been guiding the last 40 days of actions, calls
for major changes to address systemic racism, poverty, ecological
devastation, the war economy and our distorted moral narrative,
including repeal of the 2017 federal tax law, implementation of federal
and state living wage laws, universal single-payer health care, and
clean water for all.

With the Capitol behind him, in a city fraught with partisan politics, the Rev.
William Barber laid out his vision for the Poor Peopleâs Campaign in his
gravelly preacherâs voice. The rally followed 40 days of protest and civil
disobedience across the country, but Barber wanted the crowd to know that
day was not the end of anything â it was to be the beginning of a âmoral
uprising across America.â

And, even though the day marked 50 years since âResurrection City,â when
thousands camped out in the same place to decry the plight of the poor,
Barber also made it clear that they were not there to celebrate an anniversary.
âThis is not a commemoration of what happened 50 years ago,â he said. â
This is a reenactment and reinauguration.â

âI went to jail in 1969 and I went to jail in June 2018,â Louise Brown,
an 83-year-old member of the South Carolina Poor Peopleâs
Campaign who participated in the historic Charleston hospital workers
strike nearly 50 years ago told the crowd. âAnd I didnât mind going to jail
because the purpose was for the poor. Teachers can teach but they canât
get a raise. Food workers can serve you but they canât serve their families.
How can you survive when youâre paid $7.25 an hour and your rent is $1,200?â

Flanked by giant banners that read, âFight Poverty, Not the Poor,â Poor Peopleâs
Campaign Co-Chairs the Revs. Dr. William Barber and Dr. Liz Theoharis issued
a call to action to the poor and disenfranchised people from 40 states who
gathered to return home and help lead the next phase in the groundbreaking
campaign to transform the nationâs political, economic and moral structures.
âWhite supremacists have always feared poor white and blacks coming
together and thatâs why they created Jim Crow,â said the Rev. William Barber,
âBut the South has always been critical to transforming our country, and today, if
you registered 30 percent of the unregistered black voters in the South and they
connected with progressive whites and Latinos, you can change the country.
That's not going to happen if you only talk about a path to victory rather than
fighting in the whole country. That's what a movement has to do and that's what
we're doing.â âWhat makes this different from the typical voter registration and
mobilization drive is weâre not a single-issue effort gearing up for a particular
election,â said the Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor Peopleâs Campaign.
âWeâre building deep infrastructure in the states to fight for long-term change.

As Dr. King said, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong slavery, he kept the slaves
fighting among themselves because he knew when the slaves joined together, that
would be the beginning of the end of slavery. We are joining together, white, black
and brown, to end the policy violence that is hurting our children and families.â

On Wednesday, 150 leaders in the movement participated in a voter engagement
training in Washington, D.C., and then hit the streets in Southeast Washington to
immediately put what they learned into practice. On Saturday, these leaders led the
rally and march on the U.S. Capitol, and now theyâll go back to their states to recruit
other leaders and knock on doors and educate, agitate, register and mobilize the
poor.
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